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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Rasmus Skaarup <mfbsd@skaarup.org>
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Subject: Re: GEOM code ready for testing 
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On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Rasmus Skaarup wrote:

> Hmm, but I'm not sure all kinds of storage devices have serialnumbers that
> could be fetched (tape devices for instance?) and can we rely on the
> hardware manufacturers to provide unique serialnumbers?

Although it's an isolated case, you do have globally unique identifiers in
FibreChannel. :-)

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